Nitish Kumar
@nitish98
Programmer Analyst (Data Engineer) at Cognizant Technology Solutions
Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
Data Engineer with 3+ years of experience designing scalable cloud data pipelines, ETL/ELT workflows, and data warehousing solutions using AWS, PySpark, and Python.
Experience
Programmer Analyst (Data Engineer)
Cognizant Technology Solutions
◦ Designed Terraform pipelines to provision Glue Jobs and Lambda, reducing environment setup time from 4h to <1h and standardizing deployments across Dev/QA/Prod. ◦ Built Python SIT automation for the Publish Layer that cut manual regression effort by 50% and increased pipeline release reliability across environments. ◦ Implemented composite-key validation eliminating duplicate records across large datasets, raising downstream data quality KPIs for consuming systems. ◦ Orchestrated pipelines with Step Functions, Glue Triggers, and EventBridge to enable event-driven runs and reduce scheduler drift and manual restarts. ◦ Automated compliance report generation across Dev/QA/Prod, shrinking audit preparation time per release cycle.
Education
Amity University
B. Tech
Computer Science Engineering
Licenses & Certifications
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C02)
AWS
Harvard CS50X Introduction to Computer Science
edX
SQL (Intermediate) Certification
HackerRank
Python (Basic) Certification
HackerRank